Shareware Shopper

A review by defunct (RIP) Cd only gaming magazine IE (Interactive Entertainment). One Must Fall was for its time, the best PC fighting game available. Back then, Epic Games was described as “a little Shareware developer called Epic Megagames”. This is one of the many steps the company took to get to things like Gears of War. A definite blast from the past.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114236037/6131d2b9/OMF.html

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This is a hard to find DOS shareware game. It features play similar to many other fighting games of the time and had graphics that were actually top notch for back then. Too bad I can only see the story, my floppy disc which had the game is corrupted so the actual game portion doesn’t load. A shame really. This game is in the vein of Kung Fu, Yie Ar Kung Fu, the original Street Fighter and many others.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114310346/cfc615a8/KFL.html

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An indie game by a small group known as D’India, (headed by a person with the last name being the same as the groups). Darkwolf is a platforming sidescroller that has you in control of a Wizard that is on a quest to broker a peace deal between rival factions. The game seems to run a bit slow in DOSBOX compared to a real 486 running real DOS, but it is very playable if you ramp up the cycles. The controls are interesting.

A, S, Z and X all do something and pressing up will let you jump. Overall, it would be easy enough to map to a controller.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114436761/26337651/DarkWolf.html

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Pune is a game very similar to snakes, the snakes themselves seperate occasionally, giving more controlled players and occasional “out” but what really makes the game stand out is the 8 player multiplayer for the full version.

Wikipedia describes Snake as:

Snake is a video game released during the mid 1970s and has maintained popularity since then, becoming somewhat of a classic. After it became the standard pre-loaded game on Nokia phones in 1998, Snake found a massive audience.
The player controls a long, thin creature, resembling a snake, which roams around on a bordered plane, picking up food (or some other item), trying to avoid hitting its own tail or the “walls” that surround the playing area. Each time the snake eats a piece of food, its tail grows longer, making the game increasingly difficult. The user controls the direction of the snake’s head (up, down, left, or right), and the snake’s body follows. The player cannot stop the snake from moving while the game is in progress.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114252044/b75b7733/Pune.html

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Pirate Bay owner got to jail

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This is a rare, very hard to find adventure game. The Shareware version (which is what I play here and appearantly sucked at) has nag screens, censored gore, little to no music and sound effects. The registered version (which is ultra rare) supposedly has a lot more features (including sound, music, full gore and no nag screens). You play Alucarda, daughter of a Witch who was burned at the stake. Your mother comes to you as a ghost and asks you to avenger her death, thus setting the story in motion. I probably would have played it more if I knew what I was doing back in the day. Overall it seems like a fairly good game considering it was made by just one person. A real labour of love.

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Oh yeah, kind of messed up the intro video because I had to look after my Son again

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114112571/99c3c6fa/PLAGUE.html

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The best description I can think of for this game is that it’s a fun german shareware PC game that plays like the old NES game Baseball but has graphics somewhat similar to early SNES. The cost of the game to register is 20 Deutschmarks but the authour would accept half from elderly, students, poor and disabled. The game wasn’t exceptional in any way, but it was fun for its simplicity. Also, as a German thing the word Yab is pronounced “Jab”. The game features 2 real MLB team names but solely because of their colours. Blue = Blue Jays. Red = Red Sox. I let the game sit a bit to reach the credits then put it into demo mode to show the gameplay.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/114313200/51beb040/YAB.html

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This game is surprisingly fun. The sound and music are sparse, but it’s a fun interactive board game that can have up to 5 players battling it out at sea. Though originally released as shareware, Imagisoft stopped producing games altogether and released their educational type games as freeware!

http://www.imagisoft.com/rdhook.htm

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An odd attempt at recreating Super Metroid in DOS without the Metroid IP… and with an enemy on the title screen that looks suspiciously like Wart from Super Mario Brothers 2. Your character doesn’t have a visible gun either and seems to shoot from his crotch. Other than weirdness and some blatant similarities to other games, this game is fairly fun for an offbeat and different sidescrolling platformer. I really know very little about this game as there is so little available on the internet. The game is yet another to use tracked modular music to produce a superior sound to basic wavetable midi. Actually… some game tiles seem to be near matches to Super Metroid.

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http://www.4shared.com/file/115630055/c1e8026d/Sinaria.html

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Eyeguard is a very obscure, very strange DOS password security program (which means it’s largely innefectual in the era anybody could walk up with a boot disk). The shareware version only had the two messages, Eyeguard is on duty and Eyeguard is watching you, but the registered version supposedly had different avatars and you could customize whatever messaged you wished it to say. The reason for the horrible audio quality also is because it didn’t even use a sound card. It put the synthesized voices straight through the old PC speaker!

Download this oddity for free here!
http://www.4shared.com/file/114311388/3c7710c6/EyeGuard.html

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